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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - Feng Hsu Let's start with the Rules

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:13:18 04/24/05

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On April 24, 2005 at 05:14:48, Peter Berger wrote:

>On April 23, 2005 at 23:52:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Several of us have looked at the logs for the games, and game 2 looked perfectly
>>normal and the program even reported a fail low and "panic time" where it
>>searched longer than normal because of the fail low.
>>
>>This is a red herring and crap.
>
>When was the first time someone independent had a look at these logfiles? Have
>you and the several others had a chance to look at the logfiles right after the
>games took place, say May 1997?
>
>The logfiles IBM published eventually mean nothing at all. This was more than a
>year after the games, wasn't it? Even I could produce most impressive logfiles
>given that much time ..


Yes.  Several looked at the log right after the event.  I believe that Ken sent
me the section from the game although I don't remember whether it was the Qxb6
(not played) or the Be4 position.  I believe that Amir posted something about
the position early, but his comments were based on either not understanding what
DB's log output meant, or something else.

This was about the "fail low (panic time)" that caused DB to search much longer
than normal and may have been on the Be4 move although I simply don't remember
much about it since it was not a particularly significant event in my mind
because at the time I posted an excerpt from a Crafty log that looked
_identical_ in concept.

Nothing ever looked strange about the log stuff to me...



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